When CASA is involved, the results are remarkable. Children are more likely to:
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CASA Volunteers are ordinary people, just like you, with an extraordinary desire to be the voice for a child in Sumner County who has been abused, neglected, or abandoned. Our volunteer advocates are assigned to the cases of children in foster care – serving a critical role in ensuring that no child slips through the cracks of an overburdened system. Your involvement is essential in expediting the child’s case through the judicial system and receiving placement in a permanent, stable, loving home.
Tennessee state law allows judges to appoint CASA volunteers to speak up for the child’s best interests, acting as the eyes and ears of the court. Most CASA volunteers advocate for only one child, or family of children, at a time.
How do CASA Volunteers help children and their families?
They Care
CASA Volunteers get to know a child by listening, talking to the people in the child's life, and making sure the child is safe.
They Show Up
Casa Volunteers are often the only consistent, familiar face for a child in foster care.
They Encourage
CASA Volunteers empower children to express their wishes and concerns.
They Advocate
CASA Volunteers report a child's recommendations to the court and speak on behalf of the child.
Steps to Becoming a CASA Volunteer
Submit the Volunteer Application
Complete a Volunteer Interview
Go Through 30 Hours of Training
Be sworn in as an official CASA volunteer
CASA TRAINING
The Vanderbilt Center of Excellence for Children in State Custody (COE) is part of a statewide network funded under an agreement with the State of Tennessee to improve the public health by enhancing the quality of services provided to children in or at-risk of entering the Tennessee child welfare or juvenile justice systems. Children and families involved with these child-serving systems are more likely to have developmental, physical or psychiatric disabilities, and to have had adverse childhood experiences such as abuse, neglect and household dysfunction.
The Vanderbilt COE website is a great resource for trainings for CASA Volunteers.
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